Editing Parenting (section)

===Trustful parenting===
Trustful parenting is a child-centered parenting style in which parents trust their children to make decisions, play and explore on their own, and learn from their own mistakes. Research professor [[Peter Gray (psychologist)|Peter Gray]] argues that trustful parenting was the dominant parenting style in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gray |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5pVDgAAQBAJ |title=Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life |date=2013-03-05 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-03791-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Gray |first=Peter |date=2009 |title=Why Have Trustful Parenting & Children's Freedom Declined? {{!}} Psychology Today |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/200907/why-have-trustful-parenting-children-s-freedom-declined |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Psychology Today |language=en-US}}</ref> Gray contrasts trustful parenting with "directive-domineering" parenting, which emphasizes controlling children to train them in obedience (historically involving using child labor to teach subservience to lords and masters), and "directive-protective" parenting, which involves controlling children to protect them from harm.<ref name=":6" /> Gray argues that the directive-domineering approach became the predominant parenting style with the spread of agriculture and industry, while the directive-protective approach took over as the dominant approach in the late 20th century.